From the article: Mix and Match Desktop Publishing Software to Meet Your Needs
Are you all about Adobe or do you use QuarkXPress for your layout needs? Do you like Serif PagePlus for layout but like to use the free GIMP for graphics? What page layout and graphics software combination is your favorite? If you do primarily Web design, which software do you prefer for creating Web pages and do you pair it with Photoshop or something else? No need to list every program you own, just tell us which one you use for most for print or Web design and which is your favorite for most graphics work.
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Your Software ChoicesThe Logo Creator is excellent
- I note that my favorite software product: The Logo Creator by Laughingbird Software isn't on the list. They have excellent logo templates and the software is really easy to use.
- —Guest Jake Silvan
Just starting/dabbling in DTP
- I just bought Avanquest Design and Print to get into printing stationery, brochures, flyers or something in that area. I am looking into Microsoft Home and Student next or a good similarity for it.
- —logoman
Logo Design Studio
- I got to experiment with a lot of different options with this software. It was easy to use, there's a ton of graphics to choose from, and you can still create something unique.
- —CreativeJ1
Desktop Publishing in Easy Flyer Creator
- Would recommend Easy Flyer Creator is also a good Desktop publishing software for basic and home users for makeing flyers, brochures, certificates, doorhangers, tickets etc.
- —Guest Omar
Value forMoney
- If designing logo is your only need, then there are other specialist software available in the market. Amongst the few that I use quite often, I find Logosmartz from www.logosmartz.com, as very useful. It is very easy to use, and comes with excellent logo designs which need a little bit change here and there and final logo is out in just minutes.
- —Guest Karen
Favorite software
- I like Adobe CS2 best, but that's only because I can't afford to upgrade to CS3 or 4. I am not "professional" yet (not making money), but I have done some real world work for organizations. As for the free software, I tried Gimp and a couple others just out of curiosity, but there are two that I like a lot: RocketDoc which keeps my desktop clear. It works like a Mac (not that I like Macs better than Windows - I don't.) It's just convienient to have all my program icons hidden until I need them. The other free program I found that I like is CamStudio. As I said, I am not professional - yet, but making my own tutorials helps me feel like a pro anyway.
- —Guest Jim Q
Logo Design Studio Pro
- Logo Design Studio Pro was an extremely inexpensive option for me, and it works great. I have limitless options and it's easy to use. www.summitsoftcorp.com
- —ccmaguire
Scribus
- I love Scribus. It does everything that you can do with Adobe or Quark software but it's free. Best free software I've ever installed. I haven't found the perfect free graphics software yet so I use Photoshop Elements which is less expensive than Photoshop and does everything I need.
- —Guest I
Adobe + Corel
- Although I have used and continue to use many different desktop publishing software programs, for 90% of what I create for print I use Adobe InDesign along with Corel Photo-Paint and CorelDRAW. However, the bulk of my day-to-day work these days involves publishing online. For that I use a proprietary Content Management System -- most design is out of my hands. However, I do find myself using Google Docs online for more and more work that had been done before using desktop applications. What little bit of actual Web design/HTML I do (for personal blogs) is done with a plain text editor.
- —dtpublish
